The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey passed the order in response to the plea, said defendant’s lawyer Advocate Afzalul Karim to Banglanews.

Gazi Tariq Salman, UNO of Barguna Sadar and a former UNO of Barisal’s Agoiljhara upazila, was earlier sued after he printed the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, painted by a child, on an invitation card.